Sarah E. Moffett

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Entries from August 2008

THE High School Reading List.

August 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Author’s Note: My little sister is embarking on an adolescent riot of passage this fall—high school. There are only two things I can think to bestow on her that will be of any substantive value for her social and educational enlightenment—a can of mace and The List.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Separate Peace […]

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Must Read Junior High Books.

August 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Baskerville Hounds by Sir Author Conan Doyle
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
The Caye by I-cannot-remember-to-save-my-life
The Hobbit by […]

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The Great American Novel

August 5th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
The Scarlet Letter, Nathanial Hawthorne
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos
All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
The Old Man and the […]

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Art Find of the Week. Chase Jarvis.

August 4th, 2008 · Comments Off

Some times, when writing, I need to be reminded to see the world from underneath the words, not just looking down into them.  This usually results in me having to look outside my atrophied left brain for inspiration.  Chase Jarvis was this week’s discovery and effort to see our complicated world as someone who sees things, not just describes […]

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